'Cinderella' Story

That glass slipper fit ABC like a glove — Cinderella easily beat the stiff sweeps competition, attracting 34.3 million viewers and giving the Alphabet its best Sunday-night numbers in over 10 years. The princess’ momentum helped Oprah, too; Before Women Had Wings came in fourth. Actually, all the nets posted big numbers — Fox’s The X-Files (5th) got its second-highest rating ever, CBS’ Murder, She Wrote movie (13th) was lively enough — except NBC; House of Frankenstein 1997 (32nd) was a ratings nightmare. The net even took a hit on Thursday; both Seinfeld (2nd) and ER (3rd) were down from their season averages. But the Peacock did have Tuesday to crow about: Frasier (9th) scored a victory over Home Improvement (12th) for the first time, and Just Shoot Me (16th) crushed Hiller and Diller (44th).